Bottom line: As Scripture has three senses, so our relation to God has three stages: the awareness of unworthiness, the return the moral life and savoring the mystery of God.
John Littleton,
ReflectionJohn Littleton,
The account of Jesus calling the fishermen (Simon Peter,
James and John) to follow him is not only about them. It is also the story of
you and me and all Christian disciples. The fishermen were decisive about
abandoning their previous ways of living (we read that ‘they left everything
and followed him’ (Luke 5:11)) and in beginning a new and radically different
approach to living. Likewise, we are meant to respond wholeheartedly to Jesus’
repeated invitation to follow him.